From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 14 10:41:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1336814C93 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA08273; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:41:06 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda08271; Sun Mar 14 10:41:05 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA45516; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:41:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903141841.KAA45516@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdk45512; Sun Mar 14 10:40:49 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cschuber To: "Robert Sowders" Cc: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syncing filesystems... giving up In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:23:42 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:40:49 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A patch for PR/10528 was committed last Thursday. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC In message , "Robert Sowders" writes: > I also noticed this behavior after I moved /tmp to MFS, this is the line from > my fstab > > /dev/wd0s2b /tmp mfs rw,- > s=100000,nodev,noexec 0 0 > > after this I occassionally get a dirty buffers, or pages message then the sys > tem gives up on it > and reboots. > please excuse the formatting. > > >>> HERBELOT Thierry 3/10/99 12:27:06 AM >>> > Hello, > > One problem was the use of MFS (I had it for /tmp and had the same prob > with sync) > > I don't remember if this was fixed or not. > > TfH > > > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > > I've managed to convert a couple of systems to 3.1R. Both systems have > > SCSI controllers, one with 2940UW2, one SCSI hard disk, a SCSI CDROM > > drive, and 4mm external tape drive the other with a 1542CF, two SCSI > > hard disks (+ 2 IDE hard disks), SCSI CDROM drive, and a 4mm internal > > tape drive. In both cases I've noticed that when shutting the systems > > down (halt or reboot) I get "syncing filesystems... giving up" more > > frequently (about 75% of reboots) than under 2.x.x (2.0.5 - 2.2.8). > > Has anyone else noticed this? I haven't used 3.1R on IDE only systems > > (I have two other systems with only IDE peripherals, however these > > haven't been upgraded yet). One of the systems (the one with the > > 2940UW2) had been running with CAM patches installed on 2.2.6 through > > 2.2.8 with no problems. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > > Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca > > ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca > > Province of BC > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message